Her main research interest is to understand the molecular and cellular basis of mammalian neuromuscular communication, function and plasticity with the ultimate goal of finding new therapeutic pathways to counteract neuromuscular disorders.

Biography:

Dr Laure Strochlic joined the Institute of Brain and Spine (ICM, Paris, France) in 2015.

From 2007 to 2014, she worked as a junior scientist with Claire Legay in the laboratory of "Development and Pathologies of Neuromuscular junctions" at Paris Descartes University after completing a postdoctoral fellowship with Christine Holt at Cambridge University in England.

She earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Paris XI University in 2004, where she worked in the laboratory of "Membrane Cell Biology" under Jean Cartaud supervision at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris.